The Mets Ticket Lottery From Hell
I'm extremely aggravated right now.
I was one of the lucky few randomly selected to purchase tickets to the Mets' home opener or any of the three Mets/Yankees games at Shea. Before I went out last night I set my alarm for 9:41. I wrote "Buy Mets Tickets" on a piece of paper and put it on my alarm clock to guard against the impossible chance that I'd forget why I was awake at the crack of dawn on a Sunday morning.
It was all going swell until it came time to check out. I've been attempting to check out for the past half hour now. Every time I click "check out" I get some incomprehensible error message. For instance:
I've been attempting to reach somebody at Shea Stadium directly but trusty (718) 507-TIXX has been busy for the past half hour. The good news there is it suggests I'm not the only one having this problem, but it also doesn't bring me any closer to my tickets.
I run a blog, yes, but I'm not a very techy person. I have no idea what's going on with this ticket lottery. I don't care. I'm happy to wait as long as necessary. My fear though is that I'm going to lose out on the 6 tickets I'm trying to buy.
God knows they're not incredible seats, but as far as I'm concerned the only bad seat at Shea is one under an overpass. The far extremes in right and left have visibility issues, too, but I have two excellent memories associated with each: on the left field side, Game 6 of last year's NLCS; on the right field side, OOTGCOAT.
I was so excited, like, 45 minutes ago now. The thought crossed my mind that I might be able to get better seats through friends or my company, "Fuck it man," I told myself, "these are Mets tickets you're buying."
After four months of dwelling on the ghosts of 2006 and, more importantly, not watching any baseball, buying my first set of tickets to actual Mets games had me pretty jazzed up.
....
Uh-oh.
A troubling new development. Now when I try to click back one page after still another failed attempt to check out I get an error message:
"The page you are trying to view contains POSTDATA that has expired from cache. If you resend the data, any action the form carried out (such as a search or online purchase) will be repeated. To resend the data, click OK. Otherwise, click Cancel."
I really can't win here. On the one hand I stand to lose out on my tickets. On the other hand I stand to suffer repeated charges of $214.50. Eff.
And now I can't click back one page anymore. Clicking the back arrow does nothing. This is horseshit.
Alright, with this blog as my soapbox let me pronounce that I, A.F.O.M.G., as of approx. 10:16 a.m. and as of as late as 10:59 a.m., laid claim to the following tickets:
I couldn't be more certain that I will not get them. If anyone from the Mets is reading this, let me make a plea: if I'm not the only person suffering from this problem, do the honorable thing here. Reset all the settings and re-run this lottery tomorrow.
It's not gonna happen.
Glad I set the alarm this morning.
- A.F.O.M.G.
(Image courtesy of static.flickr.com)
I was one of the lucky few randomly selected to purchase tickets to the Mets' home opener or any of the three Mets/Yankees games at Shea. Before I went out last night I set my alarm for 9:41. I wrote "Buy Mets Tickets" on a piece of paper and put it on my alarm clock to guard against the impossible chance that I'd forget why I was awake at the crack of dawn on a Sunday morning.
It was all going swell until it came time to check out. I've been attempting to check out for the past half hour now. Every time I click "check out" I get some incomprehensible error message. For instance:· DTWA000I: Net.Data detected an internal error DTWL000E: Net.Data detected an invalid
value in the parameter in function DTW_ADD.
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· NCLUDE "$(seMacroPath)/getCart.inc"
IF(error ==3ltIWhLw==.Helpful, right?
I've been attempting to reach somebody at Shea Stadium directly but trusty (718) 507-TIXX has been busy for the past half hour. The good news there is it suggests I'm not the only one having this problem, but it also doesn't bring me any closer to my tickets.
I run a blog, yes, but I'm not a very techy person. I have no idea what's going on with this ticket lottery. I don't care. I'm happy to wait as long as necessary. My fear though is that I'm going to lose out on the 6 tickets I'm trying to buy.
God knows they're not incredible seats, but as far as I'm concerned the only bad seat at Shea is one under an overpass. The far extremes in right and left have visibility issues, too, but I have two excellent memories associated with each: on the left field side, Game 6 of last year's NLCS; on the right field side, OOTGCOAT.
I was so excited, like, 45 minutes ago now. The thought crossed my mind that I might be able to get better seats through friends or my company, "Fuck it man," I told myself, "these are Mets tickets you're buying."
After four months of dwelling on the ghosts of 2006 and, more importantly, not watching any baseball, buying my first set of tickets to actual Mets games had me pretty jazzed up.
....
Uh-oh.
A troubling new development. Now when I try to click back one page after still another failed attempt to check out I get an error message:
"The page you are trying to view contains POSTDATA that has expired from cache. If you resend the data, any action the form carried out (such as a search or online purchase) will be repeated. To resend the data, click OK. Otherwise, click Cancel."
I really can't win here. On the one hand I stand to lose out on my tickets. On the other hand I stand to suffer repeated charges of $214.50. Eff.
And now I can't click back one page anymore. Clicking the back arrow does nothing. This is horseshit.
Alright, with this blog as my soapbox let me pronounce that I, A.F.O.M.G., as of approx. 10:16 a.m. and as of as late as 10:59 a.m., laid claim to the following tickets:
| YANKEES - MAY 18 on Friday, May 18, 2007 at 7:10 pm | ||||||||
| REGULAR | UR | 13 | L | 3-1 | 3 | 25.00 | 4.75 | 89.25 |
| _ | ||||||||
| YANKEES - MAY 20 on Sunday, May 20, 2007 at 8:05 pm | ||||||||
| REGULAR | UB | 5-717 | 717B | 1-3 | 3 | 35.00 | 5.25 | 120.75 |
I couldn't be more certain that I will not get them. If anyone from the Mets is reading this, let me make a plea: if I'm not the only person suffering from this problem, do the honorable thing here. Reset all the settings and re-run this lottery tomorrow.
It's not gonna happen.
Glad I set the alarm this morning.
- A.F.O.M.G.
(Image courtesy of static.flickr.com)
posted by A Friend of Mr. Glass' at 10:44 AM
5 Comments:
just letting you know i had that too, but if you use internet explorer it worked, it had issues with firefox.
I had the same problem too and got screwed out of Loge tickets for opening day. I was able to get tickets for the friday yankees game but I am extremely pissed but that wanst after I had called over 100 times.
TLC over @ metsgeek
Typical Mets, they botch the ticket sales every year. Doesn't matter if you're at the Stadium, on the phone, or using the Internet, it is always a total fiasco.
I would suggest you too use a different computor. Sometimes I can't do certain things on mine then I go on someone elses and it works perfectly.
Just so you guys know, I plan on writing a letter to the VP of ticket sales for Mets because of the injustice of this year's ticket lottery and pre-sale available for plan holders. I have a season plan already, so it doesn't affect me much but it affects my family and true fans like you guys. I will be sure to post a copy when I am done.
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